Sigh, further proof that we have been so thoroughly and completely propagandized to the point where its easier to imagine the end of the world, than the end of capitalism.

How about we just make money irrelevant when it comes to subsistence? Free food, drinking water, a cot, healthcare, education, transportation, library/internet. Most of those things we feel are important to provide prisoners, but not grandma?

Its almost like a socialist revolution or death are our choices now. Any hint of the first choice is met with arguments that socialism is a terrible choice and will lead to a worse life for all, like that argument is somehow defensible when the chpice can be boiled down to "Non-zero chance of death OR 100% chance of death for 90% of the population."

These Malthusian psychopaths can fuck right off.

Open and community driven firmware is great. Combine that with open source SOC designs its even better, but firmware runs on a chip, and many of these chips are the product of mostly semiconductor industries in China or Taiwan. Cisco or Netgear may have IP on designs and schematics, but they send these schematics to chip forges out East, and they will run volume batches for clients. Along the way, any number of unknown subcontractors get their fingers into any part of the manufacturing process, and you got a nice little hardware baked attack vector just waiting to be exploited. Basically, you cant fix a poop covered lasagna by adding more layers.

Well to be fair, he did promise to return America to its former state. A depraved godless nation of wickedness and greed, built on the foundations of exploitation and slave labor.

The only reason crypto is useless is because it is easier for folks to imagine the end of the world before they can imagine a world without a central bank. It says a lot more about how effective propaganda is than the utility of bitcoin.

There will be almost no jobs for them anyway. At least no juice worth the squeeze. Techno Feudalism is all the rage.

Evil like the "seeing stone" that Sauraman used to remain in contact with the dark lord of Mordor, Sauron. What was it called again? Oh right, the Palantir. Strange coincidence or an arrogant taunt at the powerless and disenfranchised?

Respect. Ex-PNC as well. I used to think all corporate was like this, but it wasnt until I got remote jobs in cities outside of PA that I realized that region of the country seems to make a huge difference.

Shame on the editor for leaving out the most important piece of information on this story. Before his death, he literally went on a local affiliate news station and stated that if he were to die in the recent months that we should expect he was assassinated. He was warning us.

Wow, show me on the doll where the microservice hurt you...

If you put the country data into a database table, and you at least separate your database servers from your application servers, then you will require a network call to the database server to get the data. If you put it on a file in a volume, its probably network attached storage and again... a network call. The only way that is prevented is by hardcoding the data or deploying it as part of your app resources, which comes with its own set of issues I wont get into.

Your criticism of excessive network utilization and resource wastefulness is equally applicable to other architectures as well. Regardless this problem I would argue is MORE solvable in a microservice architecture in that containerized services more efficiently utilize the infrastructure resources made available to the container hosting platform. It is vastly more scalable to meet system resource needs and is more efficient at that capability. To take it further for seldom updating reference data like Countries for instance, things like Redis caching make all of this a moot point anyway.

The bottom line is that if your example you provided is based on a true story, then I would argue there are more pressing problems in your design than whether or not microservices are used or not.

The problem with this is that your "preference" to see people in the office because it makes you "happy" does not justify taking agency and choice away from others. It would be akin to saying that seeing slaves working a plantation is my "preference" so it justifies the robbery of others freedom.

Dont be so certain friend. Previous testing had a permanent effect on our world. It is estimated that there is at least 1 atom of plutonium in every human alive. Who knows what kind of long term effects this will have for the species.

You premise supposes that an object of human desire is inherently good for the human. It is unclear how this will affect all people psychologically in terms of society, the role of ownership as it pertains to capital, and ensuing power dynamics. This could all be extraordinarily bad for a great deal of people.